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english cognates

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Why does it seem that all Proto-Germanic words have PIE roots?

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Was the Thai letter ด really derived from ต?

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modified Mar 24 at 11:10 Miztli 1,042

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Hebrew elohim meaning [closed]

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Learning alot of languages can hurt your native language communication skills?

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Labialised /r/ in RP

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Can we make a case for PIE-Tunguso-Ainu-Korean numerals for one and two?

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modified Mar 25 at 14:52 Anixx 5,430

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Is there a relatively systematic way to converter from pinyin to Sino Vietnamese words (Hán Việt) or vice versa?

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Why does capitalization exist?

writing-systems

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How did they revive the phonology of Hebrew and get people to speak it?

hebrew

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What Rhymes with WARM? [closed]

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What are the differences between “controlled natural language” and “toy grammar”?

terminology

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How to find most common expressions starting with “iron”?

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Words that only differ in tones

etymology

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Proto-Indo-European words for moon?

semantics proto-indo-european cognates

modified Mar 23 at 13:34 Anixx 5,430

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Errors in my linguistics textbook

english

modified Mar 21 at 23:31 Nardog 2,328

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What is the difference between /iə/ and /ɪə/ in /məˈtɪəriəl/ “material” (RP)?

phonology

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Oral posture and articulatory settings

phonetics

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What is the maximum possible number of formants?

phonetics formants

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Is agnosticism the current orthodoxy regarding linguistic macrofamilies?

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modified Mar 18 at 16:03 Tom Hosker 465

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Do languages with cases frequently have verbs which use particular cases for their objects?

cases grammatical-object

modified Mar 16 at 14:24 Vir 119

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Do the DRESS vowel (/e/) and SQUARE vowel (/ɛː/) have the same vowel quality in contemporary RP?

english phonetics pronunciation

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Name That Phenomenon: I worry that once I STOP doing an action “just to be safe,” the thing I'm being safe from will occur

english terminology

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Buy one free one

parts-of-speech

modified Mar 23 at 7:33 vectory 1,214

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Need speech corpora for stop-vowel (CV, CVC and VCV) for acoustic phonetics research

phonetics corpora stops

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Are “Arabic” numbers fundamentally superior to “Roman” ones, or is it only because I grew up with the now-standard former? [closed]

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answered Mar 21 at 14:38 legatrix 406

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How to gloss a possessive suffix?

interlinear-gloss

answered Mar 20 at 11:07 Miztli 1,042

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Questionnaire for Spanish speakers [closed]

spanish linguistic-universals

modified Mar 22 at 12:05 Anshul 1

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Determining tongue root position

phonetics

answered Mar 20 at 16:41 user6726 45k

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Is thorn cognate with Bactrian sho? [closed]

writing-systems cognates

modified Mar 18 at 15:58 Draconis 31.9k

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Is Hebrew a language which can be transliterated programmatically according to a small set of clear rules?

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Why are archaic English words often used in translations? [migrated]

translation

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What's the right phonetic transcription of the word man?

phonetics phonemes sociolinguistics

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Is it correct for the rules of this voice alternations?

phonology historical-linguistics morphology

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How to build a robust transliteration scheme across languages?

grammar orthography cross-linguistic transliteration

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How were glottal stops indicated in Akkadian cuneiform?

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